It’s no secret that Ariana Grande was a massive fan of the Broadway musical Wicked long before she was cast in the Jon M. Chu film adaptation. Grande even spoke with Kristin Chenoweth, who originated the role of Glinda on Broadway,

Butera, in the credits for Wicked "because that is my full name.""It's my birth name, and that was my name when I first saw Wicked when I was a young girl," said the Academy Award nominee, 31. "And I feel like this experience was such a homecoming to myself,

I felt like a protective nerd, like the gatekeeping fan girl in the room,” Ariana Grande jokingly told the crowd at the DGA Theater Tuesday night. The Oscar nominee, speaking in conversation with Billie Eilish for an FYC event,